Parallels Desktop Business Edition 12.0 Quick start guide

Brand: Parallels

Model: Desktop Business Edition 12.0

Type: Quick start guide

Parallels Desktop Business Edition 12.0 is a virtualization software that allows you to run Windows and other operating systems on your Mac computer. It is designed for businesses and organizations that need to run multiple operating systems on a single Mac computer.

Parallels Desktop Business Edition 12.0 includes a number of features that make it ideal for business use, such as:

Centralized license management: You can manage your Parallels Desktop licenses from a central location, making it easy to keep track of your licenses and ensure that they are being used properly.
Customizable user interface: You can customize the Parallels Desktop user interface to match your company's branding, making it easy for your employees to use.

Parallels Desktop Business Edition 12.0 includes a number of features that make it ideal for business use, such as:

Centralized license management: You can manage your Parallels Desktop licenses from a central location, making it easy to keep track of your licenses and ensure that they are being used properly.
Customizable user interface: You can customize the Parallels Desktop user interface to match your company's branding, making it easy for your employees to use.

Parallels Desktop for Mac

Business Edition

Quick Start Guide

Version 12

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This guide describes how to quickly get started with Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition.

Read it to learn how to create a Parallels My Account, register your license key, and activate

Parallels Desktop on a single Mac computer. The guide also includes a brief description of essential

Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition features and links to additional resources.

In This Chapter

Create a Parallels My Account.................................................................................. 3

Install and Activate Parallels Desktop........................................................................ 7

Features Overview.................................................................................................... 9

Create a Parallels My Account

Parallels My Account is a web application that enables Parallels customers (consumers and

organizations) to view and manage licenses for various Parallels products. The instructions below

describe how to quickly get started with Parallels My Account.

You can create an account for your company or organization when you first create a Parallels My

Account, or after you already created a private account.

Create a Parallels My Account from scratch

If you are a new customer and don't have a Parallels My Account, you can create one for yourself

and for your organization as follows:

1 Visit Parallels My Account at https://account.parallels.com

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2 Click Register. The registration page opens.

3 Select the I represent a company or an organization option. This step is required to create a

business account for your organization.

4 Specify your personal and your company info (all fields are required) and click Create Account.

This creates an account for you personally and a business account for your organization to which

you are assigned as the account administrator. When you log in to your account using you email

address and password, you can manage personal and business products from the same account.

Creating a Parallels business account from an existing account

If you already have a personal Parallels My Account, follow these steps to create a business

account for your organization:

Getting Started with Parallels Desktop Business Edition

1 Log in to Parallels My Account using your email address and password.

2 Click

next to your user name to open a side menu. If the Dashboard page is not already

displayed, click Dashboard in the side menu.

3 On the Dashboard page, click Create a business account in the Quick Actions section.

4 A message box opens with an explanation of what a business account is. Read it and then click

Proceed.

5 In the Registering a Business Account dialog, type the name of your organization and then

specify your country, state/city (if applicable), ZIP or postal code, and your business phone

number.

6 When done, click Create a Business Account.

Getting Started with Parallels Desktop Business Edition

A business account is created for your organization to which you are assigned as the account

administrator. When you log in to your personal account, you can manage personal and business

products from the same account.

To register your Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition subscription in Parallels My Account:

1 Sign in to Parallels My Account using your email address and password.

2 Click

next to your user name to open a side menu. If the Dashboard page is not already

displayed, click Dashboard in the side menu.

3 Click the Register a license key link in the Quick Actions section. The Register a License

Key page opens.

You can also open this page by expanding Subscriptions and Licenses section in the side

menu, then clicking Corporate Subscriptions, and finally clicking the Register a License Key

link.

4 Type the license key that you received with your subscription and click Register.

5 When your license key is registered, you will see a confirmation message.

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6 If you would like to view your subscription information, click the Open Corporate

Subscriptions button. This will open the Subscription Details page where you can view the

information.

Your subscription is now registered and your license key can be used to activate the Parallels

product to which it applies.

Install and Activate Parallels Desktop

If you haven't downloaded and installed Parallels Desktop on your Mac yet, you can download it

from the following page on the Parallels website:

http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/download/

Save the Parallels Desktop installation file (.dmg) to your Mac. To install Parallels Desktop:

1 Double-click the downloaded installation file to mount it in Finder.

2 Double-click the Install icon.

3 Enter your local Mac user password to begin the installation.

Parallels Desktop is now installed on your Mac.

To activate Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition:

Getting Started with Parallels Desktop Business Edition

1 Start Parallels Desktop by double-clicking its icon. The Sign In dialog opens:

Getting Started with Parallels Desktop Business Edition

2 Click the Business Edition button (in the lower left corner) and then enter your Parallels

Desktop Business Edition license key in the field provided:

3 Click Activate to activate Parallels Desktop.

You Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition is now activated and you can begin using it!

Features Overview

This section describes some of the notable features of Parallels Desktop Business Edition, which

are not available in other editions of Parallels Desktop. Some of these features can be accessed

while you are using the Parallels Desktop graphical user interface, while others are available in

Parallels My Account or via an external package, namely the Mass Deployment package.

Here are the feature highlights:

• Manage your subscriptions, licenses, and licensed Mac computers in Parallels My Account. In

fact, you can manage all Parallels products that you own using the same account.

• Manage licensed Mac computers, including deactivating a Parallels Desktop on a Mac or

blacklisting it.

Getting Started with Parallels Desktop Business Edition

• Split your license key into sublicenses and activate Parallels Desktop on Mac computers using

the master license key or a sublicense key.

• Invite other administrators to help you manage your licenses in Parallels My Account.

• Customize the Parallels Desktop Control Center (the dialog from which you launch virtual

machines) with custom graphics and action links, like your company logo, name, and a help

desk link, for example.

• Restrict some user actions in the Parallels Desktop graphical user interface with a custom

password. For example, you can restrict your users to create, add, remove, or clone virtual

machines.

• Protect a virtual machine configuration with a custom password.

• Mass deploy Parallels Desktop and virtual machines to Mac computers in your organization

using an automatic deployment package provided by Parallels. The package can be

customized to meet your specific requirements.

For the complete list and descriptions of Parallels Desktop Business Edition features, please see

the following:

• Parallels Desktop Business Edition Administrator's Guide.

• Parallels Desktop Business Edition Licensing Guide.

The guides above can be viewed and downloaded from the following page on the Parallels website:

https://www.parallels.com/products/business/support/

Parallels Desktop Business Edition 12.0 Quick start guide

Brand: Parallels

Model: Desktop Business Edition 12.0

Type: Quick start guide

Parallels Desktop Business Edition 12.0 includes a number of features that make it ideal for business use, such as:

Centralized license management: You can manage your Parallels Desktop licenses from a central location, making it easy to keep track of your licenses and ensure that they are being used properly.
Customizable user interface: You can customize the Parallels Desktop user interface to match your company's branding, making it easy for your employees to use.

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